When you think of your past love, you may view it as a failure.

But when you find a new love, you view the past as teacher.

In the game of Love, it doesn’t really matter who won or who lost.

What is important is you know when to hold on and when to let go.

You know you really love someone when you want him or her to be happy,

even if their happiness means that you’re not part of it.

Everything happens for the best.

If the person you love doesn’t love you back,

don’t be afraid to love someone else again,

for you’ll never know unless you give it a try.

You’ll never love a person you love unless you risk for love.

Love strives in hurting. If you don’t get hurt, you don’t learn how to love.

Love doesn’t hurt all the time.

Though the hurting is still there to test you, to help you grow.

Don’t find love, let love find you.

That’s why it’s called falling in love because you don’t force yourself to fall.

You just fall.

You cannot finish a book without closing it’s chapters.

If you want to go on, then you have to live the past as you turn the pages.

Love is not destroyed by a single failure or won by a single caress.

It is a lifetime venture in which we are always learning, discovering and growing.

The greatest irony of love is letting go when you need to hold on

and holding on when you need to let go.

We lose someone we love only when we are destined to find someone else

who can love us even more than we can love ourselves.

On falling out of love, take some time to heal and then get back on the horse.

But don’t ever make the same mistake of riding the same one that threw you the first time.

To love is to risk rejection, to live is to risk dying, to hope is to risk failure.

But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

To reach for another is to risk involvement,

to expose your feelings is to expose true self,

to love is to risk not to be loved in return.

How to define love: fall but do not stumble, be constant but not too persistent,

share and never be unfair, understand and try not to demand,

hurt but never keep the pain.

Love is like a knife.

It can stab the heart or it can carve wonderful images

into the soul that always last for a lifetime.

Love is supposed to be the most wonderful feeling.

It should inspire you and give you joy and strength.

But sometimes the things that give you joy can also hurt you in the end.

Loving people means giving them the freedom

who they choose to be and where they choose to be.

For all the heartaches and the tears, for gloomy days and fruitless years,

you should give thanks,

for you know that they were the things that helped you grow.

Loving someone means giving him the freedom to find his way,

whether it leads toward you or away from you.

Love is a painful risk to take but risk must be taken no matter how scary or painful,

for only then you’ll experience the fullness of humanity and that is love.

Only love can hurt your heart, fill you with desire and tear you apart.

Only love can make you cry and only love knows why.

If you’re not ready to cry, if you’re not ready to take the risk,

if you’re not ready to feel the pain, then you’re not ready to fall in love.

Last March 15 is my 38^th birthday! A time for reflection.

So another year has gone by, I’ve got a couple of new wrinkles, few more kilos and a little more wisdom. I guess I don’t have much to complain about, at 38 I’m really in the best shape of my life, and my next 2-year plan is in the works.

I’ve been officially divorced for quite sometime now, and that’s been kind of a mixed bag. There are times; I love the freedom being able to go wherever / whenever I please. But the nagging feeling that its time for me to tell my mother the truth that my marriage is a failure is starting to eat me. With my new relationship….I plan on getting it right this time, even it means I need to make some sacrifices.

A few observations from the past year:

• Be happy with who you are, don’t try to become something you’re not. And never let someone change you to fit their will.

• Look for the best in people. (I’ve started to take heart in the belief that at their core most of us are fundamentally good)

• Never settle with less than your best. (Actions speak louder than words, and more than anything that’s what people will remember about you.)

• Be good to who you’re with, never let a day go by without saying you love them. You never know when it will be the last time you get to say so.

• Measure twice, cut once. (Whether that be in the literal sense, or more importantly in what you say. Think twice before you say it, words cut far deeper than a knife.)

So here’s to another year, may it be better than my 37^th …

True love passes all understandings.
True love expresses loyalty.
True love hurts but can learn how to mend.
True love dreams the highest dreams.
True love waits until the stars visit the day.
True love seeks good for the other.
True love lends forgiveness.
True love cries but washes away the pains.
True love makes an ignorant boy a mature man.
True love softens the heart of a girl to a nurtured woman.
True love never lies.
True love loves a person until forever.
True love sees love even though the hair is white.
And most of all…
TRUE LOVE never breaks promises,
until the vow has been done.

True love doesn’t knock our door everyday. It’s real tough finding true love. True love is the foundation of integrity, honesty and worship between two individuals. Dearth of any of this pillar may perhaps lead to maladjustment in a relation. True love has prevailed over self-centeredness, egocentricity and bodily desires. It is a feeling of serenity and completeness that gives a reason to live not for one’s own self but for someone else. True love seeks no condition or wish fulfillment. A person in true love learns to forfeit and not hunt for his own benefit. It is not about yearning to get married to your love but to watch him or her getting married to the person they love. It is entirely committed to the welfare of the other. True love cannot be experienced by each and everyone on this earth. All of us fall in love with a particular person in our life but very less could actually get united. But there is yet more lack of strong hearts in this world who can sacrifice their love with a beam on their face.

The world seems to be tired, upset, secluded and thwarted. A human soul could be utterly fatigued with the long-laden melancholy of life and the reason is the lack of love which is the major strength of human being to stay alive. Why should we want to live tomorrow? It is for the divine love that gives us a motive to breathe today. We want to live forever because of that love we are bestowed with by our loved ones. We want to be loved by him or her today, tomorrow and forever. We want to live because there is someone who loves us, someone we wish to see whenever we’ll open our eyes as well as love him or her back.

True love is all about loving someone just because they are themselves and not their actions and values. True love never asks for any amendment of your traits but accepts you as you are along with your positive and negative attributes. Being in true love is such a divine feeling where you will unsurprisingly lay down your own comfort for the safety and happiness of your love. True love doesn’t yearn for reciprocation from your love. It is a strength in itself that gives you selfless valor even at the weakest end of your life. True love is also termed as unconditional love which is a strong bond between lovers or spouses which is claimed to be at a much higher point than bodily desires.

Some symptoms confirm that you are in True Love. A simple smile on your lover’s face will take you to ecstasy. You are not bothered about anyone who is attracted to you; you’ll have only one yearning to rest in your lover’s arms, no matter how hard your day has gone but just a thought of your lover will bring an elated smile on your face, irrespective of all the flaws in your lover, they’ll seem to be the perfect human to you.

True love is all about making sacrifices and giving yourself completely without any expectation. Finding and keeping love is not just a romantic idea; it is crucial for our survival. No human can continue to exist without love. It is the heart of a human body at the arrest of which one will be lost in the realm of isolation. A person will not expire if he is deprived of love but will live the life of a deceased.

Love is god’s most wondrous gift man has ever received. True love is not about spending some moments with your love, it’s not about lending an ear to what others say about both of you; it’s not about asking for the anything in return. True love happens when you feel that your life is miserable and meaningless with that person, when you feel distressed and lonely not because you miss your love but because you are worried whether your love is in need of you. True love is always getting involved in a physical attachment but experience an overwhelming feeling of pure bliss when the two of you will kiss. You will agree to give up everything without moaning just to see an everlasting smile on your lover’s face. You sense a feeling of joy with the thought of doing something for your love. When true love happens you will want to hold your love in your arms for all the eternity, your lips will be locked forever in your warm instances and you’ll wish that your time with your love never ends.

True love is not always about having a candle dinner at the weekend or exchanging the most expensive gifts with your love. It means much more than that. Love cannot be measured with materialistic chattels neither can it possessed by speaking romantic rhymes.  Age, looks, social status, what others think about you two, all these societal issues doesn’t matter in True Love. It is an unconditional feeling that inspires, revives and even sometimes hurts. You don’t have reasons for loving, you just do. True Love is the soul’s recognition of it’s counter-point in another, when you will find that counter-point, all the knowledge that you were loaded with will seize to exist and you will only see that counter-point. The sometimes euphoric, sometimes agonizing bliss from heaven is known as True Love.